Maximilian and the Confederacy.
The last foreign news announces the departure of the new
Emperor of
Mexico for his
Mexican home and empire on the 13th-- to-morrow.
As the reader is aware, from our paper of yesterday, it has been stated by the
London Globe that
Mr. Slidell, our
Commissioner to
France, sought an interview with the
Emperor while he was in
Paris, which was "courteously but firmly decline." Very little attention need be paid this statement.
If true, it is of little moment; but it is very doubtful.
The recognition of the
Emperor of
Mexico is of small interest to us, except so far as it may involve that of the
Emperor of
France.
Indeed, Maximillian stands more in need of our recognition than we do of his, though a polite how from either to the other just now could confer no material advantage, and could only give assurance of that sympathy and friendship which we all know must of necessity exist by force of circumstances.
We all know that that power by whose aid alone
Maximilian can become firmly seated on his throne is decidedly friendly to the Southern Confederacy, and that nothing will grow out of the Franco —
Mexican policy that can be prejudicial to us.
Even the
Yankees cannot chuckle over this bit of diplomatic rumor, as they know these facts as well as we. Moreover, they find enough in their own relations with
Mexico to absorb their attention.
If rumor, also, from
Paris be correct,
Mr. Dayton,
United States Minister, has tendered to
Maximilian amicable relations on the part of the
United States with the
Mexican monarchy, and this tender the
Federal House of Representatives has just unanimously repudiated.
So the
Confederacy is easy — has nothing to apprehend from
Mexican relations — while the
Yankees are neither easy nor inapprehensive on the subject.
